The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-10-06
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Items of Interest From Both Sides
of the Divide.
Notes Clipped and Condensed From
Exchanges Published Within
the Territory.

The Alice mine and mill at Butte clos
ed down on Saturday.
The Montana Central railroad com.
pany has paid over $4,000 for right q
way in Butte.
The city fathers of Helena are strug
Cling with the question of closing the
saloons at l o'clock am.
Colonel Broadwater promises that the
Montana Central railroad will be built tc
Helena by the middle of November.
The Helenas defeated the Walkervilles
in the third game of baseball last Sun.
day by a score of II TOT. This gives the
championship to Helena.
The extra term of the district court
begins in Helena next Monday, and q
large number of cases will be on the
docket, these already numbering 325 ard
over.
The famous Crow Creek water case
went to trial to Boulder court last Sat-
urday. It was in the trouble over these
water lights that DR.. Barkley was killed
a few years ago.
A locomotive at Walkerville last Mon
day escaped from the control of its engi-
neer while coming down the hill and was
thrown from the track. Three men were
injured but not seriously.
There are 1,70O daily callers at the gen.
eral delivery windew of the Butte pest
office; Of these 921 get mail matter. The
total average daily delivery to rented
boxes and callers is 3,04O.
Merritt Havens, charged with the mrr-
der Of Ida Havens with whom he has
been living as his wife in Choteau
county hes been bound over to await the
action of the grand jury.
The contract for building the new gold
and silver mill for the Apex mining COM
pany, twenty miles south of Butte. has
been let to d. T. McDevitt. The struc-
ture will cost about $4,000.
George Mooney received 500 from
Jack Dowd to put up as forfeit money
in a race he was arranging. He lost the
money at faro and then left and was ar
rested last Monday evening at Deer
Lodge.
At the Miners Union meeting in Butte
to discuss the situation as regards the
freight rate on salt, it was decided to for
nlulate resolutions upon the subject and
forward them to Union Pacific head
quarters.
Corning & Co., contractors for the
Rocky Fork & Cooke City railroad, have
shipped tools, supplies, etc, for their
work, and will begin operations at once.
Teams and men are on their way from
the Manitoba road to sublet work.
Independent: J. S. Dickerson, late
editor of the Miner, in private letter to
one of the Independent staff, states that
he has resigned the editorial chair of the
Miner, and that he and w. D. Knight, of
the Yellowstone Journal, have obtained
control of the Spokane Evening Chron-
icle, and are now in charge of it.
Jefferson County Sentinel: In the
course of sammoning the jury for the
coming term of the district court at Hell
ena, Sheriff Hathaway made the discov-
cry that the venire included one lady.
Her naIne appears on the tax roll without
any prefix to indicate her sex, and as a
consequence she was drawn for jury duty.
The fail term of the district court of
Silver Bow county convened at Butte
last Monday morning at the appointed
hour, Judge Galbraith occupying the
bench and Clerk Stanley the desk. Most
OF the business transacted was of pre-
liminary nature calling the calendar
and setting motions for argument.
Monday evening the large diamond
finger ring belonging to Mr. Davis, OF the
Alvin Joslvn theatrical company, on ex-
hibition in the show window Of Leyson
& Turck, Butte, was attached by County |
Assessor Holland, for taxes on the whole |
exhibited. The ring is valued at
$4,000. Tie various taxes for which the
ring was seized amounted to $500.
Early Monday morning the dead body
Of George Nelson, Norwegian, was dis
covered in front of his cabin, about 200
yards from the Centennial brewery, near
Butte. When found he was sitting on a
box, and the peculiar position Of the
body is what attracted the attention of
the one Who discovered him. Nelson had
Of late been drinking to excess, and his
death is ascribed to tins cause.